Statistical Challenges in Medieval Astronomy

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Apr 2002

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American Physical Society, April Meeting, Jointly Sponsored with the High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American As

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A number of well-known figures contributed to the development of both astronomy and statistics, including Galileo (moons of Jupiter and least absolute deviations), Halley (comet and survival tables), and Gauss (asteroid orbits and least squares). The talk or poster will focus on several less famous examples, including James Bradley (aberration of starlight and error distributions), John Michell (discovery of binary stars and the "birthday problem"), Neville Maskelyne (proper motions of stars and the excess of systematic over random errors), and how a method for analyzing discordant data developed by Tobias Mayer (to track the libration of the moon) came to be called Euler's method (after a chap who failed to develop it to track the mutual perturbations of Jupiter and Saturn).

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